By Verbs, English as a second language

Dear Marina, I am glad you care a lot for English plural forms of nouns. You are probably learning English as a Second Language.The noun police is followed by a plural verb because it is a very big group of people. For one Individual, we talk of a Policeman or a policewoman. For the word Family,...

Thank you very much CJ, Zerox, and Carson. You all have given me very valuable advices. After reading through all you said carefully, and then watching a couple of English TV programmes, I believe I can now tell the difference! The ending /z/ in most cases are much shorter, voiced but less...

I don't know what you guys are all on about with devoiced /z/. It's not a devoiced /z/, it's just /s/. In the example that someone above used, "vases"... I don't know about up North or across the pond (either one), but American Standard has that as /s/ in the medial and /z/ in the final. Well, if...

Yes, the original sentence was incorrect, but I do not agree with Timbo's answer as for the correct semicolon usage and the punctuation for the two sentences, i.e. two completely different thoughts, both with an independent subjext and verb. The correct way of making these two statements and...

Hello! My name is Maria Lisette and I am teaching English as a second language (ESL) here in Mexico. I just started training at a new school here and found something odd in one of their manuals. It is a unit for frequency adverbs, but my problem is with the infinitive "to do". Can somebody...

Hi Mountain Hiker I just happened to run into this page and I read this chain of mails. Regarding the question why it is that the verb after "looking forward" is a gerund is basically a grammar rule. As a English as a second language speaker, I just learned that the gramma structure is look...

rvw, you're right. The other day I saw get to as a phrasal verb as well. The problem was the context in which the sentence was in. Although it was an exercise on word order, it asked for verb + object. It didn't make sense. Speaking English as a second language, I can't rely completly on what...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...

English is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language. It is the...

Hi Melaine! Although i am learning english as a second language, i will try to explain your problem. Well your problem is related to "Subject-verb agreement". In every sentence subject and verb should agree with each other. Remember that Have is a plural auxiliary verb and Has is singular. So...